Archangel3371 said:

Well at least we have good beer, coffee, and donuts.

Beer - yes, Donuts - yes. I'm not sold on Tim Hortons coffee though. I had a friend send me a cannister of their take-home coffee and I was not impressed. Maybe it's better brewed in-store.

travo said:

robio said:

The 25 worst Wii covers ever

Great find GG. I love stuff like this.

Indeed!  These are so bad, I begin to wonder if could've had a career in game cover design.

Those covers may be awful but every one of those games is a masterpiece.  You are all just a bunch of superficial hipsters always judging a game by its cover.  Give them a chance!!

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!! So thankful to have a website like this to go to, amoung other things of course.

Wait so Scribblenauts has Star Wars and Ghostbusters? Wow.

Dvader said:

Happy Thanksgiving!!!! So thankful to have a website like this to go to, amoung other things of course.

Happy Turkey Day you guys and hidden girls. This site has been a nice place to come chat about games and other stuff. With a nice group of civil people (for the most par). Thanks everyone for all you do here and else were. It's nice to have a few decent people around!

GG when do you get the wiiU. I better be your first friend.

Nano Assault is pretty cool, it is no Stardust though. I am first place on the first level of the arcade mode.

Dvader said:

Meh, colored 3D glasses, that is crappy.

I'm not sure it's the same as the cereal box ones. Those never worked, I swear!

Anyone tried this out?

Saw some reviews for Arkham Asylum 3D which uses these.

CVG said:

We were pleasantly surprised by how well it actually works. Seriously, it's pretty decent.


Flick on the 3D mode and, looking without the glasses you see the colours on screen go all askew, with slight tints of red and green in areas where the 3D effect is being applied.


Actually, the opening cutscene is underwhelming. It's not until you get into gameplay that the 3D effect really starts to stand out. Batman himself is the main spectacle - he looks distinctively 'closer' to you than everything in the background.


Nothing jumps out of the screen towards your face - not like with full-fat stereoscopic 3D - but during gameplay there's obvious depth. Characters and protruding objects like tables, crates or railings, clearly stand away from the environment in the background. Snooping around on the gargoyles high above your enemies is particularly cool, with Batman clearly right up close and the scenery below dipping further away. It makes swooping down on enemies that little bit more satisfying.


We didn't expect it to work this well. Onlookers from around the office were drawn in - mainly to point and laugh at us looking like idiots with those ridiculously cheap-looking cardboard specs on but, after reluctantly trying them on for themselves, were quick to admit at it's actually pretty cool.


But those old-fashioned two-tone specs come with the same old drawbacks. Our eyes were uncomfortable with it at first, clearly not loving the potent red and green shades covering each eye. But you get used to it and it becomes more comfortable.


The main issue is the loss your ability to see in full colour. That's a pretty major loss particularly for such a nice-looking game, and whatever colour-correction techniques that may be employed just don't work. The game's far more colourful in 2D mode.


So you have a choice; you either play it in 2D as normal, or trade in your perception of a few million colours, along with your pride of appearance, for a bit of three-dimensional trickery that's mild in comparison to proper stereoscopic 3D.


It's is a cool novelty and a unique experience on consoles (until PS3 gets its proper 3D update later this summer, that is), but it's more a neat bonus than a reason to rush out to grab the GotY Edition if you already own a standard version of the game.

And:

Destructoid said:

Read more at http://www.destructoid.com/is-batman-arkham-asylum-really-better-in-3d--174438.phtml#HfKQZz6TmcjIhrdb.99

So it works I guess, not as good as proper stereoscopic but you can get the glasses for less than $20 and cheaper used. It's nothing game changing but it is cool that the game pad screen can do this for off tv play.

Okay this is cool too.

So you know that Wii U does 6 channel PCM sound right? Well it also has stereo from the gamepad speakers and Nintendo are using it with cool effect. Grab some headphones for this, the second video is particularly cool

Kotaku said:

Forget Two Screens. Listen to the Wii U’s Dual Audio Trick.


We've got something for you to listen to. So grab some headphones.


Ready?


OK. Listen to the first clip. Watch it as you listen.


Then let me explain:


One of the weirdest innovations of the Nintendo Wii was the inclusion of a speaker in the system's controller. It could crudely play sound effects or even speech samples, emitting the sounds of a released bow during archery in a Zelda or the sounds of a suggestive phone call in No More Heroes.


Nintendo's creators said that the controller speaker would complement traditional TV speakers to give games on the Wii a three-dimensional soundscape. You might hear a sound effect from the controller and get the sensation that it travelled, like that arrow in Zelda to the TV. Good idea, poor execution. The Wii controller speaker was terrible. It didn't work very well.


On the Wii U, Nintendo gets a second chance to create 3D soundscapes and, right at launch, the results are much more successful. The Wii U GamePad emits quality stereo sound and can even create its own pseudo-surround sound effect. This can complement the audio that the console is sending to the user's TV or surround sound system.


In the clip up top, you'll hear the soundscape of Nintendo Land's central plaza. You'll hear the sound that's emitted from the system and from the GamePad. What you have to imagine is that you actually hear both at the same time when you're playing. You hear the GamePad audio right near your ears. You hear the system audio from wherever your TV or sound system speakers are. It seems that, in that game's plaza, Nintendo's designers want you to feel as if the game's music is loudest when you're on the ground and is fading when you go to the top of the tower's plaza. Yet you always hear it close to you. Interesting, but a bit odd.

Here's an even more interesting example of this kind of 3D audio in, of all things, the Wii U's Mii Maker. Listen to this one with headphones, because we play with the stereo effects. We'll let you hear the system audio, the GamePad audio and then both at once, one in each ear. Notice how the same melody plays, but with different instruments being played from different audio sensors. You'll hear a violin, for example, that only plays from the GamePad. It really does make it sound like you're in the middle of an orchestra.


We don't have an example of ZombiU for you to listen to, but it does smart things with the dual-audio possibilities as well. As you play that first-person shooter you might hear the voice of the Prepper—essentially the guy giving you orders from a remote location—through your GamePad, while the sounds of the zombies you're fighting come from your TV. When you hold up the GamePad and use it to scan the room your character is in, the bleeps and bloops of its sensors emanate from the GamePad's speakers.

phantom_leo said:

It's amazing that for as many things that change in this world there are still some people that just do not and will not. Grammton, for example, he's never left the GS Forums and still jumps at ANY opportunity to crap on anything having to do with Nintendo. I tried to do something NICE for people looking for a Wii U and he's turned it into his personal platform for saying how BAD the launch was. I'm annoyed my Topic has been turned into that, but feel more pity for Gram because of his inability to change, grow or simply let things go. Sad.

You knew he would do that when you made the thread. Soon Carnage and Pedro will come too.